Richard Hart


Richard Hart

Biography

Life Events

Photo Collections

Green Dolphin Street - Publicity Stills
Here are a few photos taken to help publicize MGM's Green Dolphin Street (1947), starring Lana Turner, Van Heflin, and Donna Reed. Publicity stills were specially-posed photos, usually taken off the set, for purposes of publicity or reference for promotional artwork.
The Black Book - Lobby Card Set
Here is a set of Lobby Cards from Walter Wanger's The Black Book (1949, aka Reign of Terror), starring Robert Cummings. Lobby Cards were 11" x 14" posters that came in sets of 8. As the name implies, they were most often displayed in movie theater lobbies, to advertise current or coming attractions.

Videos

Movie Clip

Green Dolphin Street (1947) -- (Movie Clip) I Think I'll Be A Smuggler! The dazzling Patourel sisters (Lana Turner as Marianne, Donna Reed as Marguerite), on the fictional Channel Island of St. Pierre in the 1840’s, are observed by Van Heflin (as Timothy Haslam, with Ramsey Ames), then picnic with their handsome unorthodox new neighbor William (Richard Hart), early in MGM’s disaster-melodrama Green Dolphin Street, 1947.
Green Dolphin Street (1947) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Bold And Scheming Introduction of the sisters Patourel, on a fictional Channel Island ca. 1840, Donna Reed as Marguerite with their mom (Gladys Cooper), and Lana Turner as self-assured (and brunette!) Marianne with papa (Edmund Gwenn), noticing the arrival of a hunky new neighbor (Richard Hart), not knowing yet that his father was her mother’s major first love, early in MGM’s Green Dolphin Street, 1947.
Green Dolphin Street (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Big Sea A big earthquake from MGM special effects wizards A. Arnold Gillespie and Warren Newcombe has already begun in what by now must be 1850-something New Zealand, Van Heflin is rescuing Lana Turner while Richard Hart, her husband on a nearby riverboat, is slow to recognize what the natives sense, in Green Dolphin Street, 1947.
B.F.'s Daughter (1948) -- (Movie Clip) Your Pretty Little Head Park Avenue, 1932, breakfasting with his wife (Spring Byington), industrialist B.F. Fulton (Charles Coburn) fumes over a radio commentator’s criticism as daughter Polly (Barbara Stanwyck) appears, sniffing a chance to help her fiancé (Richard Hart), opening MGM’s B.F.’s Daughter, 1948.
Desire Me (1947) -- (Movie Clip) I Knew You Weren't Dead Escaped POW Paul (Richard Hart) visits the Normandy home and hears narration by his comrade Paul (Robert Mitchum), whom he believes to be dead, and encounters his wife Marise (Greer Garson), who has not given up hope, in MGM's Desire Me, 1947.
Desire Me (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Sounds Like A Man Going Home SPOILER here, as we see that ex-POW Paul (Robert Mitchum) really is alive and returning to Brittany, where his wife Marise (Greer Garson), believing him dead, is selling his business (to Morris Ankrum) and is near to marrying his ex-comrade Jean (Richard Hart), who kind-of left him to die, in the MGM wartime melodrama Desire Me, 1947.
Black Book, The (1949) -- (Movie Clip) July 26, 1794 Blazing introduction of historical characters (Richard Basehart, Jess Barker, Arnold Moss, Wade Crosby, Richard Hart, Norman Lloyd) then fictional D'Aubigny (Robert Cummings) meeting Lafayette (Wilton Graff), opening Anthony Mann's The Black Book (a.k.a. Reign Of Terror), 1949.

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